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Mathilde Cinq Mars | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Mathilde Cinq Mars
  • Canada
Choosing, gathering, reconstructing, the work of Mathilde Cinq-Mars is similar to that of a meticulous collector. A designer and illustrator, the artist gathers magazine photographs, newspaper cuttings or archive images in an intuitive way and transforms them by covering them first in white acrylic paint to neutralise the context of the image, to give the material new life while keeping its memory, its history and its evocative power implicit.\n A sort of palimpsest adding layers without cancelling them out, Mathilde Cinq-Mars’ drawings, illustrations and sketches approach sensitivity and the mental world of humans, a fragile domain, in a more or less figurative and distanced way. The drawing’s characteristic includes as such all of the finesse of a line, the nimbleness of a direction which can come back on itself, listen to itself and correct itself.\n Characters, objects, signs and symbols stand alongside each other with shyness, tenderness and in harmony. The forms charm each other and come back into contact to serve an outline that is as fluid as the emotions it wants to testify. With touching, absurd and sometimes indescribable images, the artist wants to invade her invisible world which grows through her pencils like the roots of a tree gathering their reducing and regenerative sap from the deep. \n By parting with the original context of the images to make the content of their history reborn, Mathilde Cinq-Mars frees herself from a particular determinism of the situation to populate her illustrations with “characters’ feelings which express the human heart more than it represents it, from anthropomorphisms to fluid and volatile emotions, to the image of the internal world of everyone, feelings which take root as quickly as they disappear”.

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